7mm Aneurin Bridge ( St Stephen’s General station )

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Canton is booked in to the New Newport O gauge show next April and then the Newport Neon model show in may 2014 after that time I will probably put the layout up for sale.
I'm working on my railway room ready for my next major project Ranelagh Bridge, a small American N scale layout and possibly a 90's era sectorisation stabling point in O. Yes I know a triple decker layout set up. ( heljans fault for bringing out a 60 ) and I will not have the room to store canton as well.

I'm just trying to find out if there would be any interest in this layout. It is 6X2 with two extra boards for cassettes 10x2 in total. I've had interest in the layout being booked for next years Lord and Butler show in Cardiff. The Cardiff model railway show, so if any one would be interested and did want to take it on the exhibition circuit then it has had interest. Plus the 2015 Newport shows.
Of course none of the locos or stock are included.
Before then I've got to add dummy point rodding along the back of the layout behind the shed up to the foot bridge. Add a new ladder for the walk way on the coaling stage, a dummy point lever to stick in place, finish adding the dummy lamps
and wire up the telegraph poles, Along with a few other bits and bobs.

 

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Hi Steve,

Great to hear the " Dedicated railway room " is taking shape, what sort of overall size are we talking about ?

ATB,

Martyn.

 

[Compton castle]

13 X 10 with a small extension making the back wall 16 foot long. Ranelagh should be near enough scale.

 

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13 X 10 with a small extension making the back wall 16 foot long. Ranelagh should be near enough scale.

You are catching me up, the carpet tiles I had decided on for the layout room have been discontinued they were almost the same tint as GWR green .

If you were to go out about another 3 foot you could go for a roundy roundy, just a thought .

ATB,

Martyn.

 

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I know there's no chance of that though

 

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Dummy point lever stuck in place, blending in and painting next.

Can any one shed a light on the gas oil tanker on RB in this picture I would like to try and get a kit.

 

[InvernessTMD]

Just a quick query... would the point lever really be that close to the track? The ones I have on Leeming Yard are the other way round, with the lever as far from the track as possible for clearance...
You could be right of course!!

 

[mickoo]

Just a quick query... would the point lever really be that close to the track? The ones I have on Leeming Yard are the other way round, with the lever as far from the track as possible for clearance...
You could be right of course!!

Well spotted the levers are on the outside of the fitting to allow space for the one direction pull mechanism. Our older ones have the mechanism submerged


Later ones have yellow boards on both side to give an even footing


And the ultra modern ones have a super grip surface added

 

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Why is there a point here, going nowhere ?.

Steve

 

[marsa69]

Future expansion. Better to put it in now in case it's needed than having to rip up the track later to do it Seemples

 

[mickoo]

No idea!, there's two like this, one on the other track (up road) just behind me facing the other way. The up road one is muted as a loco servicing area as Freightliner are trying to get out of Ipswich, it costs them a fortune to transfer locos from the up sidings to the down side servicing area with path fees, they have looked at a servicing are in the down sidings but there's no access or space. Freightliner want Port of Felixstowe (PoF) to provide the facility and pay for it PoF have quite rightly said sod off, your problem you pay for the solution.

Ironically the up road lead puts the servicing area inside the curve and away from all road access and is limited in space unless they make a sort of head shunt and have the servicing area running back toward the direction I'm travelling in, the down road (pictured) is on the right side....literally!....but will impinge on the Central terminal operating area if a decent sized servicing area is built, bearing in mind that over a weekend Ipswich can store a dozen or more locos, mind a few of them are electric so would stay there.

I asked Volkers (site trackwork builders) and they said "don't know, PoF asked for it", I asked the PoF consultants and they said "not sure but felt we had better add it in just in case", so the short answer is, no one really knows LOL I'm sure someone does somewhere, but I've not found them yet

 

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Check out the madness this evening,
Can you see what it is?? Lets just say I'm only adding one more.

 

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Thanks for the info on the point lever, I've turned it around now.

 

[iploffy]

Well spotted the levers are on the outside of the fitting to allow space for the one direction pull mechanism. Our older ones have the mechanism submerged
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Later ones have yellow boards on both side to give an even footing
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And the ultra modern ones have a super grip surface added
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Is the line it's on level or on a gradient as they could be catch points

 

[mickoo]

The 'visiting diesels' look good - it occurred to me that most models of Green diesels I see seem to be weathered to within an inch of their lives... I don't know if it's intentional or not, but seeing bright, clean 'new' diesels here really gives a good contrast to the soot and grime that came with Steam, especially in it's dying days.

There' s a very good reason for that

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/9880579593/

Most diesels were very dirty in the early to mid 60's as they had to reside along side steam.

 

[Jon Fitness]

Telegraph wires?
JF

 

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An overall view of Canton

Point rodding today, although I need to pick it out in a lighter grey as it gets lost in all the grot.

 

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Canton in all its 6x2 glory, you can have an O gauge layout based on a real space in a small space.

 

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Ground signal arrived today, just need to sand around the bases and weather the ground signal

Point rodding, six individual lengths, I used some thin plastic strip I had left over from the footbridge,

 

[Jon Fitness]

'ow about a couple of views "from the footbridge"?
JF